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- How the Weinheimer and Johnson families knew each other; meeting LBJ and Lady Bird; LBJ’s 1954 campaign; the Weinheimers being Democrats; the history of party allegiances in Gillespie County, Texas; the impression LBJ made on local citizens by…
- Living in Paris to cover the French war in Indochina 1950-1957; moving to Hong Kong to be the chief correspondent for Southeast Asia and China in 1959-70; getting accustomed to Vietnamese culture and developing sources; Pham Ngoc Thao and his death…
- Allen Dulles' 1960 visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's visit with JFK in Hyannis Port following the 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's attempts to identify with farmers on the campaign trail; Congress' inability to make…
- Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ in…
- Biographical information; period as chancellor and president of University of California at Berkeley; Kerr’s appointments during LBJ Administration; relationship with LBJ; offer of appointment as secretary of HEW; establishment of medical school…
- The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering…
- Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter…
- Monetary policy, 1966-1968; tax increase discussions; Bill Martin; relationships of CEA with Federal Reserve System, Bureau of the Budget and Treasury; Wright Patman; Arthur Burns; LBJ's understanding of macro-economics; Vietnam; War on Poverty…
- Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; Labor Department; Job Corps; Youth Opportunity Centers; influence of organized labor groups; minimum wage; Willard Wirtz; Jack Henning.